Species Details

ABH: 24.001

BF: 264

Family: Bedelliidae

Taxon: Bedellia somnulentella

Authority: (Zeller, 1847)

Vernacular: Bindweed Sleeper

Account: Local in hedgerows and on waste ground throughout much of southern Britain, where widespread but erratic in appearance, occurring with less frequency as far north as Co. Durham, the native populations periodically reinforced by immigration Larva mines leaves of Field Bindweed and Hedge Bindweed.

Accounts provided by and used with the kind permission of Mike Wall, Hampshire County Moth Recorder. These will in due course be gradually replaced with species accounts with a Surrey context.

Wingspan: 8 — 10 mm

Surrey Flight Period: 19 Apr (2011) — 12 Nov (2003)

The flight period of overwintering adults are not given. See the flight chart below the distribution map.

Foodplant: Convolvulus sp., Ipomoea sp.

Foodplant accounts are from the HOSTS database — Natural History Museum, London, UK. (CC0).

Status: Local

UK BAP:

WCA:

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Further Information: https://www.ukmoths.org.uk/species/bedellia-somnulentella/
Statistics

* Based on adult records only.

Records: 46

Individuals: 0

Earliest Year: 2002

Latest Year: 2020

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